reportedly escorted out of the borough after allegations of liberal bias and misconduct in the hunter biden investigation and accused of slow walking the probe into hunter s laptop from hell to secure the election per joe biden, people that retire from the fbi are not walked out of the headquarters building on a hot sunny afternoon in august after being screamed at and ridiculed by his bosses like a laptop. this was a firing from. but no asking us to simply trust this very same office in the washington sewer and swamp with an investigation into joe biden s chief political rival. they want absolutely no scrutiny t at all whatsoever. and they rated mar-a-lago and would not let terms attorneys observed the search and demanded that mar-a-lago turn off all security cameras so that they
president s knowledge. president trump ordered that critical military aid be withheld. officials were informed the aid would not be released unless president zelensky publicly announced an investigation, and president trump refused to release the aid until his pressure campaign on the ukraine was exposed. president trump refused to arrange a meeting with president zelensky, and president trump s agents advised ukrainian officials that the white house meeting would be scheduled only after president zelensky committed to the investigations. president trump ignored the anti-corruption talking points prepared for his calls. president trump asked president zelensky directly to investigate president trump s chief political rival. and president trump stonewalled congress investigation. you know, i don t know what more you can ask for here.
not using official channels like the department of justice to request investigations. taylor texts ambassador volker. the person who asked for an official request was yermak. volker responds, yes. but don t cite him. taylor, i won t. you re right. this is not good. we need to stay clear. august 22nd, ambassador sondland emailed secretary of state mike pompeo and others to make clear that to break the logjam, releasing the military aid, president zelensky would have to, quote, move forward on the issues of importance to trump, again meaning the investigations. and the list goes on and on. so this claim that this is the thinnest of evidence is simply not true. there is overwhelming evidence of the scheme led by the president, led by his personal lawyer rudy giuliani to corrupt the american elections to continue to withhold military aid until such time as a public announcement was made that would sphere the president s chief political rival. and with that, mr. chairman, i yield back.
figure out how is it possible it s legal to hold this aid, because the certification happened and there s no basis to hold it other than the president ordered it. so it s not about corruption. it was about extracting a commitment to announce publicly that they were launching an investigation of president trump s chief political rival, a smear against vice president biden. so this notion that really what happened is the president just satisfied himself that mr. zelensky was for real is nonsense and betrayed by all the evidence collected. let me remind you of it because you apparently don t remember it. ambassador sondland testified under oath, mr. giuliani s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelensky. mr. giuliani demanded that ukraine mr. giuliani by the way, the president s counsel. he demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the
offense against the constitutio constitution, against the structure and function of the government. even chairman nadler said there was no quid pro quo in the call transcript. you can make up all the things you want but those are not the facts. we are here today because the president abused his power. we are here today because he solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election. the president was caught red-handed. trying to pressure a foreign government to target an american it is sin. this debate just lacks a certain sincerity, this notion of abuse of power is the lowest of low energy impeachment theories. there was overwhelming evidence led by his personal lawyer to corrupt the american elections to continue to withhold military aid until such time as a public announcement was made that would smear the president s chief political rival.